Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must place at the disposal of the workers accurate scientific information as to the problems, conditions and purposes which confront employers...
Coach Bingham is planning to take about 40 men to confront the Orange and Black in the Palmer Stadium Saturday. Practically every one who placed against Yale last week will go on the trip. This will leave some twenty additional men to be picked in this afternoon's trials. The Crimson squad, accompanied by Coaches Bingham and Farrell and Manager Rowe, will leave for a New York City Friday afternoon...
...resolution manifestly implies that the United States should offer to decrease its araments or at least to limit them. It would be suicide to take such a step before the many baffling and perhaps insoluble problems which confront the Conference are satisfactorily settled. It is necessary to clear away misunderstandings, to change traditions centuries old, and to suppress the greed and lust of nations before any steps can be taken to effectively end war. The Open Door in China, the desire of militaristic and war-made Japan for expansion, and finally the innate craving for ascendency which exists...
...primary purpose for which these annual gatherings of college men are held is to face fearlessly and sanely the moral and spiritual problems that confront the college men of today." They are not intended as a pleasant ten days to help students recover from the year's work amid congenial surroundings. The purpose as outlined and as it is fulfilled each year is both praiseworthy and practical. There have been many men who have profited more than they knew how to tell by attending these meetings. They have returned to college better able to meet their own problems...
...purpose for the establishment of this corps was to give the younger officers thorough grounding in all phases of consular work and by assignment to the larger and more important offices and contact with the broader problems which confront the Service. In this way they are exceptionally well trained for the grades which they are later to receive. The examinations for Consular Assistants and Student Interpreters, however, are less exacting...